Dear Group, This evening when I was talking on the phone with my niece Deb she let me know that she had the usual Friday night bunch of kids at her house-her daughter Amanda's friends. Speaking of Amanda, Deb then put her on the phone to explain to me why she had to go somewhere in particular next Wednesday (not a "happy place") and after only a few disapproving words from me, Amanda and I exchanged a few laughs. She gave the phone back to her mother Deb and we talked about Amanda and her newest boyfriend Andrew. Note: I had to be brought up to date that Amanda has gone through two other boyfriends since Christmas! But then, hey, she's 15 years old! Well the next thing I knew, Deb told me that she was bringing them all over to my house in a couple of minutes! What? Oh well, I just turned the outside light on, unlocked the side door and in a couple of minutes Deb came in followed by three 15-year-olds that I had never met. Following them were Amanda and a boy that I had never met. Amanda introduced all of them to me--there was Andrew and Holly and Karen and Matt. They were definitely polite but Amanda, the instigator, got them into their usual silly mood and so, me Auntie Vee, gave them tit for tat in response to the outrageous things they were saying to each other. I do declare, they appeared to be a bit shocked! :-) Deb spied the large empty cardboard cartons in my kitchen and knew that they were the boxes my brand new computer came in today. When the kids--especially the boys--heard that I had a new computer they wanted to see it, so all of them took their sneakers off--there's snow on the ground, you know--and traipsed into my computer room. Andrew immediately sat down in my computer chair and started asking questions. I told him it has a speed of 886 MHz and 128 RAM. Both boys were impressed and one of them made the comment, "Hey, she really knows computers." I guess they were surprised that a little old lady knew about such stuff. They spotted the Dell brand name, they spotted a window that was open on the screen that showed I had MusicMatch Jukebox and they spotted my internal CD-Rom DVD/R/RW drive. They were REALLY impressed! Matt picked up the "Getting Started" instruction sheet that I still had on my desk and checked out what ports and connections the CPU could accommodate. I had told them I'm connected to the Web and email by a cable connection but that I didn't think my new computer had the connection port to accommodate it. He pointed out that all I need is an adapter for the telephone jack and that should do it. Now whether he's right or not, I gave him a big hug anyway. Hey, if you want help with your computer, just talk to any 15-year-old kid! When the six of them were piling back out the door, one of them said to another, "You know, she's real cool!" Deb smiled at me when she heard the comment and I just said to her, "They don't even know just how cool I REALLY am, do they?" Deb smiled in agreement! Hey, when ya got it, ya got it! Especially when you're 69 years old and your sister's youngest granddaughter and her friends let you know it! (tee hee!) vee